DISCOVERing Treatment Reality of Type 2 Diabetes in Real World Settings - DISCOVER

Exclusion Criteria

• 1. Diagnosis of type 1 diabetes mellitus
• 2. Patient is pregnant
• 3. Patients initiating a dual therapy after having previously received two different lines of monotherapy before (e.g.: Metformin → SU (Sulphonylureas) → SU+Add-on)
• 4. Current treatment with chemotherapy, oral or iv steroids
• 5. Patient is on dialysis or has had a renal transplant
• 6. The patient is taking insulin as first line treatment
• 7. The patient is taking dual therapy or a fixed dose combination treatment as first line
• treatment.
• 8. The patient is taking herbal remedies / natural medicines as first line treatment
• 9. Participation in an interventional trial
• 10. Presence of any condition/circumstance which in the opinion of the investigator could significantly limit the complete follow up of the patient for 3 years (e.g. lifethreatening co-morbidities, tourist, non-native speaker or does not understand the
• local language where interpreter services are not reliably available, psychiatric
• disturbances, dementia, alcohol or drug abuse).
• 11. Not willing to sign the informed consent.